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choppy

/ˈt͡ʃɒ.pi/US/ˈt͡ʃɑ.pi/

choppy adjective: having many small, rough waves.

Adjective

choppy (comparative choppier, superlative choppiest)

  1. Having many small, rough waves.
    • Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!
    • Safely navigating choppy waters has allowed FirstGroup to pay its first interim dividend for almost a decade, and only its second since payments restarted in August.2022 November 30, “Network News: First pays out interim dividend after reporting £37m pre-tax profit”, in RAIL, number 971, page 24
  2. Discontinuous, intermittent.
    • The sound is choppy in this video.
  3. Shifting, variable

choppy meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Tagalog and Arabic

choppy in Urdu

بےربط, متلاطم, اکھڑا اکھڑا

choppy in Malayalam

പ്രക്ഷുബ്ധമായ, ശാന്തമല്ലാത്ത

choppy in Tagalog

discontinuous, intermittent
putol-putol

choppy in Arabic

discontinuous, intermittent
مُتَقَطِّع mutaqaṭṭiʕ

Forms of choppy

comparativechoppier
superlativechoppiest

Origin of choppy

From chop + -y.

Words formed from choppy

Words that rhyme with choppy

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about choppy

What does choppy mean?
Choppy means having many small, rough waves.
What is choppy in Urdu?
Choppy in Urdu is بےربط, متلاطم, اکھڑا اکھڑا. See Choppy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is choppy?
Choppy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce choppy?
Choppy is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɒ.pi/ (UK).

Words near choppy in the dictionary

  1. chopping-knife
  2. chopping-knives
  3. choppings
  4. Choppington
  5. Chopps
  6. choppy
  7. choppy-changey
  8. Chopra
  9. Chopras
  10. chops
  11. chops and changes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: choppy (page history and authors); choppy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); choppy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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